Author: Jason
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We vote for Palestine
This site is great. Use it to send your local council election candidates an email asking them to take action for Palestine: https://wevoteforpalestine.net Free Palestine! From The River To The Sea, Palestine Will Be Free Stop the genocide.
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TIL about lolcat CLI cat alternative. Create rainbow colouring effect
turn your boring old text cats into lolcats
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D-Link Duds: The Case for Choosing Better Tech Brands
A few years ago I invested around AU$700 in a D-Link DWM-312 4G LTE Dual SIM M2M VPN Router for use as our fail-over for internet. It never worked at the time but it was not really necessary as we also had another option. Recently I tried to reinstate it. It’s terrible. the UI frequently…
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Execute a script from MicroSIP on call answer
MicroSIP is a fine open source SIP VOIP soft phone. It mostly does exactly what one needs. However I wanted to make it open the browser and lookup the number of the inbound caller when you answer the phone. It turned out to be trickier than expected as MicroSIP uses the old INI file format…
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USB Battery pack 3d printed case
I had a USB Battery pack who’s case got smashed. so I designed and 3d printed a new case, and while I was at it, added a newer circuit board to it that has USB-C charging capability. PCB: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001965710528.html Onshape 3D design The lid of the case is super-glued down. I was going to make…
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##palestine on libera
Today with the help of two other members, elisa and xph I created ##palestine on the libera IRC network. Drop by and say hello: https://web.libera.chat/?channel=##palestine or ircs://libera.chat:6697/%23%23palestine
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updating discord .deb one-liner
Discord will often require you to install an update. When this happens it quits itself and auto downloads the latest .deb, but you end up with lots of sequentially numbered versions of the .deb so it’s fiddly to find and install the latest one. I came up with this approach to apt install the most…